Earth over-shoot day....

[kadee79]

On July 29, we cross an alarming threshold. This date marks Earth Overshoot Day, the point each year at which humanity starts to consume the world’s natural resources faster than they can be replenished. 

It’s taken us only 209 days to burn through a year’s worth of resources — everything from food and timber to land and carbon. We are using up nature 1.75 times faster than it can be replenished. To do this sustainably, we would need the resources of 1.75 Earths.

These latest figures come from Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit that calculates our annual ecological budget and the date at which we exceed it. Once we bust through this budget, we start devouring resources at an unsustainable rate.

“It’s a pyramid scheme,” said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and founder of Global Footprint Network. “It depends on using more and more from the future to pay for the present.”

It’s like being in financial debt, only much harder to recover. “There’s nothing to kickstart the economy if we overuse our resources,” he said, “because every economic activity depends on natural capital, and without that, it’s not going to work.”

www.msn.com/en-us/news/causes/earth-overshoot-day-shows-were-tearing-through-resources-faster-than-ever/ar-AAF0Q1J?li=BBnb7Kz

[countrygirl2]

Raise and stock up, have plenty back to eat and use

[ModE98]

Kadee, the future appears rather bleak for those who may live in the next 4-5 generations.  Terrible Wars for remaining food, water. etc., are very possible, if not inevitable.  If they are lucky, some new technologies will develop to prolong life a little longer.  Hate being a pessimist; but, it seems the "writing is on the wall".....period!

[kadee79]

And there are some horrible fires right now in the Rain Forests.  I've forgotten how many, but I thought I heard over 1000.  Some say they are set by those wanting to clear the land....this is wrong.  The rain forests protected the whole world...without them we are toast.